Author:
Alcorn, Randy C.
Imprint:Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1990.
Description249 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Purpose and foundation -- A slow and reluctant pilgrimage -- Test cases of civil disobedience -- Civil disobedience in the Bible -- The laws of man and the laws of God -- Which authority do we obey? -- The law of love -- Civil disobedience in church history -- Rescuing as a form of civil disobedience -- What really happens at a rescue -- The purposes and results of rescuing -- Concerns about the rescue movement -- Biblical and theological arguments against rescuing -- Social and personal arguments against rescuing -- Rescuing, the church and the future.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-249).